We have to conduct our business according to our understanding of winning, losing, what benefits us, what is to the detriment of U.S. security interests.

aligning U.S. and European energy policies is of renewed strategic importance

We need an Ambassador to Romania. This is a country that has great reason to feel imperiled by Russian aggression.

The Germans have openly been the most skeptical about sanctions on Russia with respect to action in the Ukraine.

His economy is in recession, two straight quarters likely of negative growth, massive capital flight.

I hope that you'll keep open the possibility of having a specific standard for the transfer of custody of adopted children.

Whatever number you look at, if it's one in five, if it's one in six, if it's something else, what we know is that campus sexual assault is vastly underreported, and one of the main reasons is that there's not a good path for redress, OK?

many students there feel a second victimization when they go through the process of reporting and testifying to the abuse.

What are your thoughts on what a repeal of the AUMF would do for our capabilities and necessities inside Afghanistan over the next several years?

Ms. Magsamen, do you have thoughts on the consequences of an AUMF repeal?

But clearly, inside that country, there is a crippling fear that the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the diminution of aid that you referenced in your initial testimony is going to have a pretty catastrophic effect on the economy.

Mr. President, I hope the Presiding Officer and my colleagues had a great Father's Day this past Sunday. I had maybe the best Father's Day you can imagine because I got to spend part of it with my two sons and my father. We all went out to…